A new statewide voter survey by Gov. Rick Scott's pollster, Tony Fabrizio, shows the governor trailing Democrat Charlie Crist by four points, Politico.com reports. The poll of 1,000 Floridians has Crist leading Scott among likely voters, 49 percent to 45 percent. That's slightly better than the latest Quinnipiac University survey, which had Crist over Scott by 7 points.

Fabrizio's poll was conducted Nov. 24-26 and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points. It's unusual for a candidate to leak an internal campaign poll in which the candidate is behind, but the Scott numbers -- if accurate -- feed a narrative that Scott is improving and that the Scott-Crist contest is a tight horse race 11 months from election day.

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